Rooted in our Catholic and Benedictine heritage, Saint Vincent College provides a world-class education for all students to succeed. Here, students learn the skills and pursue the deeper truths to live a better, more successful life.
No matter where you want to go in life, Saint Vincent College prepares you for a bright future. Guided by our Benedictine heritage and values, our students gain the knowledge, skill, and strength of character to stand firm in an uncertain world.
Ranked 7th in Pennsylvania, and 61st nationally, in Money magazine's 2022 "Best Small Colleges" rankings.
of 2021 graduates have found employment in their field or are in graduate school or military service.
Choose from 90+ programs of study, including 9 graduate programs, to find a field that matches your passions. Go beyond your major in the Core Curriculum, learning the foundational values and wisdom informed by our Catholic, Benedictine, and liberal arts approach to education. And if you’re not sure what to study, we can help you explore until you learn what you love.
From the moment you step foot on campus, you’ll feel the embrace of a community that has helped students find their purpose and pursue their passions since our founding in 1846.
Top 5%
Ranked by College Factual as a Best Value School among both Mid Atlantic and National schools.
82%
Acceptance rate to medical school (allopathic or osteopathic) on a 5-year rolling average.
100%
Law School Acceptance Rate
Four years to reach beyond your grasp, to challenge assumptions and to thrive outside your comfort zone.
Campus is large enough for you to discover a space all your own when you need it and small enough to find a large group of friends when you don't.
From Aurelius Hall to the Dupré Science Pavilion, and from the meals and memories of the Community Center to the laughs of the residence halls, Saint Vincent College is home. But home also means having the support to extend comfort zones and push boundaries. This spring, some of our students took that metaphor literally.
Instead of spending the week with family and friends, or simply going home to relax, these Bearcats spent their spring break boarding an airplane to travel thousands of miles away from Latrobe. More than 65 students took the opportunity to venture into the wild on one of six different study abroad trips. From Dublin, Ireland, to Dakar, Senegal; Munich, Germany, and to Rome, Italy; even Antigua, Guatemala, and London, United Kingdom, the Bearcats made their mark in the world, taking in their newfound knowledge and expanding their horizons.
An already deep partnership between Saint Vincent College and the Latrobe community looks to expand even further with grant funding from the Richard King Mellon Foundation.
Funded by the Foundation’s Economic Development Program, the grant is supporting a cross-sector partnership that leverages and aligns collective resources to develop a vision, strategy, and plan for the future of Latrobe, with a focus on downtown revitalization.
The best is yet to come,” say those who see the future as an opportunity for tomorrow. However, on the first floor of Aurelius Hall, there is growing attention on the future happening today, bringing new and improved excellence into today’s classrooms. The Alex G. McKenna School of Business, Economics, and Government is at the forefront of the future, training and educating students on current trends in various fields, including operations.
The School’s most recent addition, the Gary M. Quinlivan Operational Excellence Lab, brings a promise for the future to educate students in a practical sense, providing a new and improved learning environment.
Saint Vincent College was never going to be a dry campus. Not that that ever should have been up for debate for an institution with a German heritage even more rich than the darkest, smoothest Stout beer you can find; for those who’ve called Saint Vincent home, it could never even be a consideration. And for them, drinking the beer was only part of it; really, it was about the community fostered throughout the brewing process and the celebration of an age-old tradition.
But there were some who only saw bringing beer to a Benedictine monastery as a way to create disorder and conflict.
From Fred Rogers and his television magic, to daily sounds of joyful music, we are an inspired community of artists, makers and agents of change. Take a calming walk in the woods, scope out fall foliage, hit the slopes at Seven Springs or Hidden Valley. There's a way to unwind in any season and still be home by 10:00.
Dr. Adam Wood is usually very busy during his time off. Not with work, necessarily, but with fun. Learning what a usual day off looks like for him and his wife might leave you feeling a bit exhausted. From an 8:00 am start with some fishing to a quick tennis match to possibly a session at the gym and then maybe a round of golf, Dr. Wood certainly knows how to milk a Saturday for all the fun it’s worth, and he knows how to bring that into his engineering classroom, too. He uses tennis balls in his dynamics class to show how different types of materials have different properties, and fishing lines to show how materials deform in response to different forces. READ MORE